State Rep. Tom Emmer, the guy expected to be the Republican Party nominee for governor in Minnesota, has two past DUI convictions, which in and of itself isn’t necessarily politically crippling since they happened 10 years apart and the most recent one was almost 20 years ago. But as recently as last year Emmer was proposing laws in the legislature trying to weaken the state’s drunk driving laws and to seal old DUI convictions (although, in fairness, not his own).

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